Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 597 - 545 Boiled Emperor, Artificial Holiday_2

Chapter 597: Chapter 545 Boiled Emperor, Artificial Holiday_2

He reached out to scoop it up, and the liquefied Dragon Energy in the Yu State Tripod rippled like real water.

Though not hot, he could not touch the person inside no matter what.

Clearly, even though Wang Yuan possessed the Dragon Energy of the Lord of Yu State, the Emperor Position of the Eastern Ghost Emperor, and the powerful Great Divine Power of "Harmonizing Yin and Yang,"

he still had no authority to interfere with the fundamental nature of the Human Dao Torrent.

Wang Yuan ruefully withdrew his hand, stroked his chin, but a trace of joy gradually emerged on his face.

"Previously, we had no way to handle the contamination from the twelve ancient Corpses, and a group of Corpse Dissection Immortals were powerless.

Now, as the shoe has finally dropped, it’s confirmed that this contamination provides a connection to the Human Dao Torrent, serving as an anchor into the collective unconscious sea of humanity.

Its own lethality can be virtually ignored.

As long as we can tackle the trouble caused by the dark mire of evil thoughts, the harm from this Human Dao Torrent could be cut by a large margin, and the leftover weak waters of the Heavenly River can be easily dealt with."

"The reason why the Human Dao Torrent can fundamentally twist the Human Dao relies on the Emperor Position of four Human Emperors from the Xia and Shang eras.

The ’Emperor’ himself demoted his rank by four grades to be highly revered, a direct son of Heaven.

Though the Emperor Position is not as influential as that of a ’Human Emperor’ who can command with a single word, yet he still holds the Heavenly Constitution in his mouth and possesses unfathomable power within the Human Dao.

The instance when Emperor Mu opened the Earth Gate with just a word, allowing the Killing Tree to invade, is telling.

Perhaps the power of one Emperor is far less than that of a Human Emperor, but what if there are three, ten, or dozens of Emperors together?

They have four Human Emperors; what if I used forty Emperors, or even a hundred Emperors?

Is there a possibility to counteract the anchoring of the four Human Emperors?"

He examined closely the Nine Cauldrons in front of him, which could mass-produce Emperors, his eyes flickering.

He and the Nine Soldiers just encountered a tremendously tricky problem.

Right after his big cousin became the Lord of Yu State and was bound to the indigenous Heavenly Dao of the Nine Cauldrons, there was an immediate resonance, which seemed not to be a coincidence at all.

It appeared more like a stress response from the indigenous Heavenly Dao trying to save itself!

"I possess the ’Three Realms Beyond’, this tripod has five Yang, four Yin, three talents, four images, and the five elements.

But to mobilize the power of these emperors within the tripod, simply the state of Yu seems not enough.

The Yu State Tripod is a three-legged Yang Tripod if my big cousin can take down another state to combine it with a four-legged Yin Tripod, perhaps unexpected changes might occur!"

...

Time flew by.

Three months had passed since the first natural disaster erupted.

In May, the pressing Human Dao Torrent had still not been resolved, and the "Little Ice Age" abnormal weather arrived once again on schedule.

Last year was a drought, and naturally, this year turned into a significant flood.

For half a month, they hardly saw the sun at all; the slightest disagreement, and the sprinkling rain would fall again.

Rattle, rattle, rattle...

Eight robust Ghost Steeds, treading on underworld fire, pulled a carriage as spacious as a small palace, racing along the road.

In the blink of an eye, they crossed the ancient boundary monument between Yu State and Dai State.

Like a cluster of invisible and intangible black smoke, they easily crossed streams, forests, rivers, mountains... traveling through states and prefectures as if on flat ground.

Among the dark clouds above the carriage, a black and a red, twenty zhang long Flood Dragons rolled and frolicked in the rain.

This weather was precisely what Zisu and Hualing, the two Water Officials, loved the most.

They had received their duties from their mother, the sole current Lord of Turbid River, Turbid River Dragon King Long Shao, and were drawing excessive rainwater along the way to dump into ditches.

They strived to reduce the water damage.

Inside the spacious carriage, Wang Yuan, lying in his simple linen clothes on his sister’s soft knee pillow, had a face that increasingly furrowed because of the conversations heard through "Heavenly Vision and Earthly Hearing" along the way.

"Wife, we don’t need to cook wild vegetables tonight; our village has ’delicious meat’ again!"

"Ah? Whose family is it this time?"

"Shuanzi’s mother went up the mountain to gather firewood, the roads were slippery with rain, and she broke her leg, and can’t do heavy work anymore."

"Then... his family is providing the meat, our family needs to contribute salt to get a share, thank goodness we still have a small pinch left, otherwise, we could only drink soup..."

The somewhat excited conversation of this couple came from a nearby village.

Just thinking about it, one could guess the source of the "delicious meat" they mentioned.

The carriage moved further.

"Damn it, big brother, I lost money gambling again last night; what rotten luck, when will we brothers ever strike it rich overnight?"

"How much did you lose again?"

"Last time, Manager Sun at the mine lost all the money he had compensated us, not a single penny left."

"No worries, let’s call Qiangzi tomorrow when we go down to the mine."

"Indeed! Although that Sun is greedy, now that each winter is colder than the last, the coal our brothers mine makes his mouth drip with grease.

At least for our lives, he ought to bleed a little for us brothers."

"..."

The listener heard this blandly, yet it concealed an underlying, bone-deep scent of blood.

Huang Wu gently massaged Wang Yuan’s tensely throbbing forehead, softly comforting him:

"Don’t overthink, we bite off only as much as we can chew.

Yu State managed to timely restart the ’Dragon Qi Prohibition’ at the state level, using the united human willpower to weaken the calamity of the ’Human Dao Torrent.’

You and Jinghuan have already done remarkably well.

Like Yu State, Dai State faced the first wave of the ’Human Dao Torrent’, and the manifest symptoms have also been corrected by the Yin Soldiers using ’Morality.’

After the flood passed and the evil thoughts’ black sludge settled, the subsequent subtle influences were anticipated."

While speaking, she casually waved her hand.

Outside the carriage, the accompanying Yin Soldiers, the Yin General whispered in low accent, "My lady, your servant obeys!"

He sped off, wielding a Wolf Fang Club.

Merely three months’ time, for beings like Wang Yuan and Huang Wu, Sages of the Green Seal with life spans of hundreds to thousands of years, felt like a blink of an eye.

Yet within the mundane world, subtle yet profound changes were occurring.

Yu State, the smallest in area among Jiuzhou, was the first to complete unification and also restarted the ’Dragon Qi Prohibition’ at the state level.

It performed best amidst the ’Human Dao Torrent.’

In the following three months, aiding the disaster victims, dredging rivers, clearing ’Innate Evil’, it took great effort to finally settle Yu State.

Then, under Cui Yue’s supervision, the electrical system and corresponding machinery also began a small-scale trial in Dengzhou.

With resources vast like mountains and seas to further solidify the ’Dragon Qi Prohibition’, building dams to withstand the autumn flood peaks.

Wang Yuan and Zhou Jinghuan, the two rulers of Yu State, held a confidential talk once more and revisited the dragon capture plan.

Although three Martial Saints were enough to allow King Jing’s Army to swiftly conquer and expand territories in a short time,

there was a sharp sword hanging high overhead now; it wasn’t a time for expanding territories indiscriminately.

Stabilizing the base, solidifying the existing foundation of Dragon Energy was more important than blindly expanding the occupied area.

Otherwise, capturing more land would just result in territories that could leech but not nourish.

Yu State is a Three-Legged Yang Tripod, while the neighboring Yan State and Dai State each is a Four-Legged Yin Tripod.

If we could ultimately secure any one of these states completely, we’d form a pair of Yin and Yang and attempt to manipulate the powers of emperors embedded in the Nine Cauldrons.

Su Guyun, with his massive military supplies, was advancing aggressively in a manner of an industrial nation conquering an agricultural one in Yan State.

Dai State, the major camp of the Nine Soldiers, could be utilized for leveraging.

The best scenario is waiting for them to complete internal integration, then with an absolute advantage in military force, strike directly at the Yellow Dragon!

Wang Yuan had just freed up some time, and visiting Dai State was to prepare for the fall flood peaks.

In the lunar calendar, the months of July, August, and September are autumn.

These are also predicted by the Great Fate as the peak flooding period.

Just like how reservoirs preemptively release water every time a flood tide is expected,

as the chief crisis manager, Wang Yuan was also preparing to preemptively trigger this ’Human Dao Torrent.’

The execution sites were in Yu State and Dai State, closest to the Returning Ruins.

After repeated studies, there were two traditional festivals or major public events that might trigger it prematurely due to some strong human desires.

One is July 22, the birthday of the God of Wealth.

This needs no further explanation.

If some day the status of an immortal becomes solely dependent on faith, then the God of Wealth would unquestionably be the deserved Yan Han Divine King!

The other is the "Autumn Examination" before the collapse of the dynasty, in August.

Held in the state cities (including the Capital), where registered scholars, supervisors, shade students, official students, public contributors who passed the Ke and Sui examinations, are all eligible to participate.

Occurring once every three years, those who pass the exam are regarded as high and mighty scholars.

Plus, there’s an old saying that fits well.

—In this realm of Dai State, not showing filial respect counts as one of the major faults, with having no official title being the worst!

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